The evening world. Newspaper, February 15, 1900, Page 2

’ Ea Ve abs: ‘LER’S BROTHER-IN-LAW sinewal Byabito, PEBRUARI TELLS SYNDICATE SECRETS. ~ M188 ANNA GORTE. ——— Schmidt Describes How the! Game Was Worked for Big Returns. Lyons was ronning New str and Ed Low, Powers and 8u! 'The Evening World's exclusive) fal! tn with Lyons to-day of the confession |\ Bice en P) ef Charles Schmidt, W. F. Miller's |livan wore in the consern. As to how my brother got in with them or how the ' yw, and its corroboration | oi. wan finally suxwerted to him Miller's brother, following the ex-| plann.. and carried ow. | don't know es Hut what | do know ts that one night late » “ He's statement, in Aum Miller came to this fat an made indictments of others cop-j :old my brother and me that he had the | * ane Digest kind of « scheme for making Fran! yadicate 7. Ly the kita L. I money had ever been conceived, ‘Tt | said in taking | A with it paying ) our | | ent. t simply consists he money from one a dividends of 19 p and keep on paying your div of every fresh load of money that in. Then aw the thing «1 it mete bigger and bigrer and bigger fe smouah In hand to eopident of Distriet-Attorney this morning esid that the ‘bad begun his examinations the Grand Jury in the hope of further indictments against . of our lives Then we a » ‘The Bvening World's pub-} “And wo whet did | like the foot that! but on his advice throw up centeaetnns, however, ave aod vteady place, wherv 1 wan mak: new leads, the District-Attor-| ine plenty of money, and xo to be his admite, and these are being clerk! fgatively, with the probability) HAD CHARGE OF BOOKS. ethers may be brough. into the “Thad chars the books at first, § [Deteetives are looking for Miss ar us for the 1% Lou Miller, Will's brother, who w nothing more than @ clerk like me, had charge of (he mall, Sullivan asaiat- ed Lesile in looking after ihe corre: T. Sullivan, beth cOMMeD- | rrondence. Powers ran the Hoslon ot syndicate. jbraneh and Mille the rest. Weil, the Jthe echeime wax jurt what Miller hed up the gomplete die- of the methods and scope of test swindling institution in Bistory of modern times, William deseribed it to be, and it grew in y that set us all ergy “Anything like the way the money poured into that little house in Floyd! street was never known, It was just! lm before the her home nex f the important witnesses against Bhe was an employee of Miller 1 ony rand Jury (On the night of or and secreted It onder # sofa in formation, Behlesinger took Miller to Boston and Of 176 Floyd street, Brook-| a1 stairs and out on the stoop wait Ing to get their Money In Miller's hands. | teeta ie eee eee er urd whens sider married Mill “It was reaily funny to see the crowd Milter. fr fuently hes fan aaa s ) Gebmidt qpye Miller task $20,000 to) of suckers — Rad the books and 1)! wish the publle could see some of the] street offi every week for along time. | men of the investors, What do you it, coming as it does if an Episcopal| Miller's own brother-in- ested and taking : nclaw, 18) ve per cent commission on the strict greatest Importance, and in all ity Schmidt will be the prin- 4. t. for leading in his friends? What! # witness for the prosecution was the le Byndicate ¥ Moult In that olty \¢ e Woran to whom he had been In troduced by Schlesinger After bir indictment went imme: Hately rt Would you aay to a South Brooklyn As: semblyman with $1,000 invested with us? And there were others away up in poll- tea, were any number of] fwund ‘hat th - egpinnt the swindler when he comes | oii men and public officials, though Wy the wma | believed that ph | 1 can't recall their names, but nat € o rape ittle money and ce ComMunlonte supports Lesiie's confession the political backing of Miller. wun his or We wae anxious to learn just how the, SCHLESINGER APPEARS. “It was not until | had been clerk in ¢ a (Special to The Resume World.) THe Goes wot go into the details on |inere for some time that a big. OLA Parka i ad WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, | ? eubject that Les.le gave, but he |Wack-luoking fellow with an ugly reow that IL would be belier to de-, Consul Macrum's fied hin on bis face came Into my department h one day and began pulling open the! / bureau drawers, Well, 1 didn't like thot] him and told him 90, ‘Who are you, any-| That | how Reynolds mot Miller ied in the Sem proof a nee © between Grent Bele He accords i that he has positive knowledge bet one south Brooklyn Assembly- yo England eret one aerate way, 1 asked ‘Come down statrn, fain and the United Staten, | WH Miller, and he knew an Bple- ‘ne sett to me, ‘and see Mr. Milter. Me| LIST OF VICTIMS LOST. Senator Jones, Chatenan of the Demo clergyman who had $600 in the dd bara La Chea ro Bt became known to-duy that the ‘“eab. erate Neti al Comiuittec In scans i There re J ler" mn ie i omMce oh con at the acum statement to-day sald Were policemen and quickly enough two pon First, tha june! ola “wv pay et "hase bh “a the subserviency a the | oflcials of all kinds, be says, tn {ihe now man hat some Kind of my cay int ale See, of Aduuintatration to British interests and terested in the swindle. rlous power over my brother-in-law and| destroyed by 0 demonstrates that a secret aillance of was using It; second, thet Miller stoud sbpearance or wi sort exiats between the two na- Gchmidt also knows that the) acetal dread of achlestn Suge after the r Glergyman he mentions received 6 /rurns to me all in a white t/cmble and Macrum statement wan a bomb- ‘cout. commission surreptitiously |*2's: “This Ix Mr. Schlesinger, the head ' yell among ihe Ki ns. There are » hey an Senators In future you'll take, of the concern, © or fourte ‘Dringing members of his flock to | Floyd atree: x ho all your orders from hin.’ | ry n tie fs employed by While no) anti-Admiolatration, are “ ‘And now,’ said Schlesinger, coming | Miller the had known since both opposing the Hay-Pauncefete amend . worked for Miller as a | toward mo, ha upstalre before t cnrvw] Sere children Jment ta the Clayton-Bulwer reaty. had charge of the books |¥0" out of the window.’ * Thay vate rinit Hawt and evidently knows much | "1 €0" away pretty quick. 1 ten you! ALICE REED 'S STORY. vomes, but admit that Macrum hae and from that dey unttl the crash Reed, the head neon badly, treated. about the ouvir of if Schlestiger was the master | ail ayn h WecEALS for tneccn's aoe la than he is yet willing to tell. every mk S ieeprasibie fo m's, App bered Livings net wh MILLER HAS A FORTUNE. irri os, bie tates vn th , too, says that Miller has a for- ters gidtively to-day to anjerum's (re “don't keow how much they took in— | fr See hidden somewhere that he fot |, Seki havo bach meni than 6 sation LI Feporier that she is now dudnte” te ection, ie protest Hat Of the oyadicate, and that Achies- | jdotiars, #chiestager go moss jin ih rk a fori- | mot ph i Powers got part of the |pore Powe» got some and i poastbiy | ment [the rest soaked away, despite t od, of attractlye ape) Ger: hoe, Wa) witha vivactiy aid Auen Induced 4 that the police only found 7 ¢ 9 confession is supported. him. As to what ney meant to dol “invert. Bue war 4. deciles brunette by @ statement from Louis Mil- | inere's no doubt. The thing was get- || Baie slim, fu.ly 3 feet nehes in f, brother of the swindler, which | (Ing Jus @ litle too big io handle an!) A few joure afier ihe Miler tu {t was time to quit, Just before the raid | burst sie toll her story to an Byeuug by The Evening World. The , Wiha reporter Miller telie also of how hia |e, fO"e sent cut clreular eters, with | fooled the unsuspecting In- for the return of the recelpts and stating as follows a and alludes, Ike the others, | ‘hat the rwcelpts world exe appraiser's ores vitae he i ‘i #0 mich stock of jhe vaslie ‘and pe customers as “suckers.” mee hel \ Syndicate. Then, having got all the re- Wt be gad, gave alot of the coipty in theie hands, they had ouly co |)! ~ wews Mmeney ts woman friend | quit and jeave no evidence tenind. The , Whe deposited it in a NeWepspers, however, were just a little i. Btiim Bipeton. When the rnld was 10 ick for thom sate al Witter, ana tient tne ah Geblesinger and the woman | rtifteate io} ‘OUNEUE'S 3 DRATA CELL #4 proposition to eon: | Jcept this: that I wish he hag sider even for a moment seriounty att wh the money and fied to Europe. ‘me away from a | ia SAbewt Afteen depositors in the had a chance of « livelihood For now POWERS HAS GONE. A Sing Sing Keeper Will sit Come . Byndicate were examined °° ¥il! employ me, Wherever | | thumatty om ra Before It for work they ory ‘scoundrel.’ My ons ne ed Miller #} Dey and Night. | Clarke betore whois future is blasied, 1 wish he ‘York asain, We THe eeting| BING MING, Fed. 16—Ny special ar- Mublicrtion of Leslie s| ranwements have teen made for the re-/ Jand Ti. Molineux at the! city soon after Millers in Ic 1 returned. Sery in Brooklyn this never met my sister or me” and the Vernon ave-| BROTHER'S CONFESSION. Pelicemen, concerned in| Louis Miller, when seen in the pre Pa eneape after his frat indict- | °nee Mrs. Miller and tholr fut ancered and chuckled over his broth ‘Were also on band for exami- windling game. “Bay, you reporters wanted to know | things, didn't you?” he said. “You used to come to the Byndicate oMfices daw af be te lef the wrew, He will receive the mont accundet to any other © remained | " not bel a “At "its boardt We *| hast Twentyeniaih street, {hac hal ) death of a new and he be en back to New ¥ ray st ha connectlan with ‘loyd street busin Almost Ly elatives Wil, fot be permitted to. sem, Hut, oh, how alee | IMT, ‘after he entered ihe concern a Hota Prue” When slotted ts e fooled you’ ANd Was sent ) Boston | me to tell you the story of our business, wouldn't A they roped tn, ae whom they (Jde't rope in, wouldn't | you") Weil, & on't. 1 war only a clerk, | anyway, and if I knew, | wouldn't tell. The police got nothing, and they 1 it the 't find # thing to hold me for wit) all their cleverners, Say, I'm more than mateh for you. Ob, yes, 1 knew, the king-pin, he was, is he? Got all the money, he . No, Paende Te aot be permitted (0 hands with nim, because of an rule o the Beaton, and becavse her m ot ct that (here is an irom seteen Rastern Hr \hree from the dow Beimers cel, | * MRS. LESLIE INVESTED? iF 1 efnes: ae w Le jake, who har test wi eee i jer, which » i ROR, Meee a fs} wil be fend without the Knowledge of | to ye. band. The letter says: aftermath de Pane | Naan See AS BILL SIGHED. Wahaectth Tinie the Wintel Measure a }aw—Arrears te Be Paid. age. ve stranger i tap ramsey lowes Rate ye and Kener 2 wee? comk it ones al Obi nathan eae Jerrad ve ook at the [tea Babi Lom streets syed he syndicate raid she took $8,500 into | fNnt at _fmee ree thew’ inore show the existence of a secret seer ante ween Recretary Hay and the Brition 'Governren accensibic to The New Verk ‘There are (ow méwspaper ofiees across as if you sat at the mouth of a pipe F, Miller's Franklin Byndicate, The whh a big bag and saw the gollen a . an cide tegen World is to-day able to con-| pieces flowing in an endless stream.| ball while the potlee rearched Mise " " the ‘euelusive | Wo"? handled ax many ax two thou- oles Gr ere ait sie tat ‘pasa | nd emphasise me Wika” Westane’ piling’ trem, a orer tbo| sick iaced Ay certain fare thas eta ton of the confession of Cecil joountry. It ten't ry for me to go) ™ wae Abpat how muah Edward : over the whole But I've seen ” te . of Brooklyn. by another from Charles the people lined two deep down the halla] |» Tai in pe y, ont RS has Schlesinger She was his ae | tain Reyonide or Captain Lees, or their Mer, . Important polat 1 {89 | ovies, Thatimuch I'll swear 10 tolna’ Geontat deapond en 4 a 3 Wrathful. 1M Be i, ses ue {oe dlerunted rough the efforts of iv tet ie” rd ie Mery uo etm ie | nie ate € Naredt ‘Bri ‘itatn. alia taal Meh " H wr Mason i Tement te the ote that i. af In no court ps evi camel's back; | Soverenant i MACRUM IN CONGRESS, in Demanding if Apolony Wao Asked trom Mette fur whieh thut part of CREDIT WHERE CREDIT |S DUE. (Prom yetterday’® Becoktyn Ragle.) ‘The Floyd street Gnaneler's lon upon which ae. lice was congratulates ening World upon ite the Meee: in New ph chit a messenger if you have a hen, | and Mivel t Shows We Are Allied to Great! Britain---Senators Are conclusive Opentag Malle. WASHINGTON, duced ton “Resolved, By the House that the Sec- in directed to inform the he ure of thele House of Representatives if said charges |} ul of the American nformed the State Depart: | De®. Fendi. we had been | jipie retary of Stato of Macrum as © ment that ae at aoene Feb. Ib.—Representa- tive Wheeler, of Kentueky, to-day intro- ve House the following resol’. Deseret faye Ne OMelel Fist Letters Were Opened by WASHINGTON, fatled to show thes, wuy, report that vate mall tater ‘id nat reach hes (hat protest Serettarat t ho Uni joes not Capt. Delaney tayo Topics welll euers ire Wanted for a Recent Bis Job, Delaney. of Police Capt, Thisty-fitth street to his custody. i sald they were professional rs, but would tell nothing about that Mr. Fev, 1h not act 9] thoritatively stated at the St | Ment to-day that a eWarch of the records Macrum had hd prerved to the Department that ‘al mail wae being regu‘art | eaeaes with by the British author was sald that Pe did, in a ral: | aera “laveatigat for m8 pune credit t staclon, handcuffed prisoners (o Voghville Court this afternoon, whem he had remanded is, 1000, BEAR AAD ON SUGAR. Prices of Stocks Off in Sympathy—Trading Active. | Prices at the opening of the stock mar- jet to-day were generally irregular, but the railroad list advanced sharply ali ‘ound on the rise in London. altimore & Ohio went up a point, but later the entire list lor: the opening ad- [vances and receded below last night's clowe. Tennessee Coal & bron was in good demand and opened an eptreme two to the good, bu: quickly fost halt whe is An energetic raid by the bears on Su- | {ear and Third Avenue dropped ther, two points each from the opening. Man hattan ang Brooklyn Rapid Transl de- | clined fragtlonally after @ good start in sympathy with Third Avenve. Other natable ‘recessions were record- Jed tn Chicage, Milwaukee & St. Paul Erie first preferred, Federal Steel, Fed- eral Steel preferred, Pennsylvania, | United States Leather and the Baltl- more & Ohio ‘sauces, The Paci ues, particularly North: | based. ern Pacific and Southerp Pacific, were firm. The trading was quite active, Wut of smal) volume, Concerted bidding up of the metal | stocks caused advances of 1 qnd 1 1-2 iy the group. Other stocks ales came E jugar raliying to Gp best and Rubber, Avenue and | the Tobaccos recovering 1 amd 2 points. Rallroad stocks were maintgined above yesterday's close, Thepe was very little juin, in bonds and prige changes Were | mixed. Third Avenue broke 4 3-4, to 98, on tne | announcement by a banking house of; its withdrawal from # proj the compa stocks, Bu Tin chy af and se dusttals + reacted 1 to 2 The | - va ch market became » Denny 8 an aul, | 0 ot on 7 th ae Avenue resovi over 3 te is marked up to 14. in a ‘iff oe ie fe 1 esky oe) shocks ae Rar, in elt an result The FFE = ba Sia +3 2 gS *2-2*°25535" he: 3 i it Peat S14 * "Esse #5553 +3 = at oe eo SSF *E at ai ss "sSgests= It was au. ¢ Dopari- 4 BS : 8295°*32. 253283225" x. Fate. ¥ | Nirtbere an ak * ¥ Onians 228275 935°253 took two bur- them un Mt aad made other arrests, ‘The prisoners are Thomas Healy, alias John Ryan, twenty-five years old, of East Thirty-sixth rect, Healy, twenty mate ca old, 48, ar pe oS pool TO MEN AND BOYS, Prothane Have purchased the entire stock of ; PATRICK NORTON & CO., Cor, $d Ave. and 127th St, Consisting of Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s 'High Grade Clothing, Hats and Furnishings, at a price that will allow us to sell it at ONE-HALF (4) OFF Patrick Norton & Co.'s Former Prices. The firm of PATRICK NORTON & CO, was in business but a little over a year, and felt obliged to retire on account of th: extreme high grade of their stock not being suited to the requirements of the neighborhood, The stock is one of the cleanest and best we have ever bought. Every garment was ly made and shaped, and we ose this the greatest not a shred of cotton in the w’ hole assortment. opportunity we've ever presented to clothing “Fa Particulars and Price List in T'o-Morrow’s Papers, —25 t afternoon bearing (wo paper ‘The Bening World bes city. in active and strong, with the around. etfie at 51 1-8. Bt. Paul at 14 Louisville & Nashville at §1 5-8 are all bid prices, > WHEAT WAS STEADY live to-day, and off a» trevtion, Liverpool cables showed an adv 1+4 to 3-2, but the French market limited the demand to-day. New York opening prices were: wheet, 71-4, May corn, @ 5-6 bid. Chicago's opening prices od y wheat, 7-6; dply, @6; M34. Moy cate, & 34, Mew York's closing prices were: Chicago's closing prices were: bid; Bebruary, @ 14; May 06 to 668; May, uly, 648 to pal ALMANAC FOR TO-Dat am good, snbstantial money of the United States. “This uote will explain ell,” he sald, aed hastily took his ée- parture, The note was as follows: “New York World: Kindly use inclosed $200 for the benefit of the peor as you mary best see Gt. A few lines in Bunday's edition as re- empt would be desirable, yet no thanks for me, Thanks for your lek Babies’ Fuad. There is no greater and nobler charity in this big tty “with other Gepertments was also aring trom 3-8 to 34 per cent. all nm common was agid at 3b ld preferred at 4 Int, Union Mae BUT NOT VERY ACTIVE, _— Wheat opened steady but not very pc- pnd May wheat soon eased off 1b to 9 polis, Loon) shorts on consderubly reduced jest night and thus —ES— SHIPPING News. clothing salesmen wanted for thipsae ¥ wt A a ~~ epiphanies MODEST GIVER TO THE NEEDY POOR. A man, who modestly aaid that he had no name—at least, none for publication— walked into the cashier's office of The World yesterday bags, each one of which contained $100 in NO NAME.” credited the $200 io The Evening World's eae HEMMED If BY AEBELS, Three Thousand Bolo Men Attack Our Troops. aver: 4 and These nee of MANILA, Feb. 15.-—On the night of Fr & three thousand insurgent bole men, armed with rifles, atiacked the American garrison at Daresa, im Bouth- ern Luson Reinforcements were sent from Albay, whereupon the mali body of the enemy made an attack on Albay and burned @ number of houses. ‘The Forileth Volunteer Infantry, which is stationed at Albay, retired to a convent and fired volleys at the rebels from the roof. The insurgents gurround- oa o ed the convent and attempted to set it on fire, but were routed by the shrap- nel thrown by a mountsin gun, which was worked from one of the windows, The detachment which went to Daraga ‘took refuge with the Spaniards im the town hall and fought the rebele ail . y the insurgents retreated, leaving feventy-one dead on the ground. May corn, May July, May July, oats, hase... 6.Nigen eB fee. 10) The American loss was two killed and FM | five wounded. One of the wounded was Americ: vicinit of ey i ya Careras. | i : i ! e iit ii ee din ry . ’ ‘ e . ( oy °